Word: spruceness
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...Korenek drives his 90-ft. rig from Santa Fe to Washington this week, heads may turn. After all, it's not every day a gargantuan blue spruce is moved from the forests of northern New Mexico to the groomed lawns of Capitol Hill. This is the first year a living tree -- complete with a 40-ton root ball -- will serve as the nation's Christmas symbol. The 60-ft. giant will be garnished with strings of chili-pepper lights and 10,000 handmade ornaments from New Mexico, including silver coyotes, miniature pueblos, tin stars and brass jewelry...
...planes. Says he: "Most of these airline guys, if they're feeling down one day, if they're sick, you know what they do? They buy a plane. It's like an alcoholic buys a drink. Today you have a glut of planes." Icahn insists he can spruce up his fleet by leasing planes at bargain-basement prices...
Sometimes natural disaster has a sunny side. Last summer raging fires consumed 98,000 acres of spruce around Tok in the Alaskan interior. But this year villagers are harvesting a bumper crop of morels, wild mushrooms springing up with abandon on the charred forest floor. The delicacy, which sells in specialty shops for $14 a pound fresh and as much as $200 a pound dried, is in great demand in tony restaurants. When Tok folk learned they could make as much as $20 an hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt...
...squirrels live off seed cones from the Engleman spruce that they stockpile for winter. Each squirrel collects its own midden or pile of closed cones...
...habitat atop Mt. Graham is unique. Due to the altitude, the climate of northern habitats is reproduced and allows spruce and fir trees, as well as squirrels, to live on the high peaks...